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I’ll be gone for the next 8 weeks while WMNR broadcasts live concerts from Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. So on the season finale, I assigned music and singers who should be on everyone’s summer listening list. I also threw in a few requests and some music I’ve been wanting to play this season but couldn’t find the right theme.

Although I won’t be doing live shows for a while, I’ll be uploading new podcasts on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, all summer, here:

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THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME / Mark Winkler / “The Company I Keep”

WMNR Fine Arts Radio was celebrating another Musical Theme Week, “Gone Fishin'”. So, of course, I jumped right in, since I’ve spent my life fishing for the right words and angling for an original thought. Although I came up with just two songs actually about fishing, I found songs about fishing metaphors (see if you can guess which metaphor goes with which songs) and songs about taking off and going traveling in general.

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I’M GONNA GO FISHING / Peggy Lee / “The Best Of Peggy Lee”

THE FISHIN’ HOLE / Andy Griffith / “American Originals”

I WANT A LITTLE GIRL / Nat King Cole / “Big Band Cole”

GOOD BAIT / Amanda Carr / “Soon”

AREN’T I CUTE? / Heather Bambrick / “It’s About Time”

SLAP THAT BASS / Susannah McCorkle / “How Do You Keep The Music Playing?”

A program for all the mothers in the audience, and for a change I meant it in a literal sense, not as a nasty pejorative. So it was two-hours of music about being a mother, caring for their kids, worrying about their kids, and advising their kids – any of which can be taken to an uncomfortable extreme…but maybe that’s just my story.

Each week when I’m putting together a show, I have to decide between so many choices – either a new singer or a classic one; either a familiar song or something more recent; and, most important of all, either libel or slander. This week I decided to let the singers wrestle with their own Either/Or decisions. Why should I have to do all the work?

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ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL / Kurt Elling / “Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music of Coltrane & Hartman”

GOTTA BE THIS OR THAT / Kim Nazarian & John Pizzarelli / “Some Morning”

THEY’RE EITHER TOO YOUNG OR TOO OLD / Rosemary Clooney / “For The Duration”

IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN’T MY BABY / Melissa Morgan / “Until I Met You”

I HOPE YOU DANCE / Deborah Lippmann & Savion Glover / “Nightingale”

PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

Don’t forget: It’s not an “either/or” question when it comes to listening to Turntable For One. Missed the Saturday night live show? Don’t cry. Please. You know how I hate it when you cry. You can always listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, The Public Radio Exchange. Just click the link below:

Once again Turntable For One goes where no other radio program goes and, as usual, I forgot to bring a map. But I thought it was time that someone told the audience the facts of life. And, as you can see, I had some impressive help.

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LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES / Carmen McRae / “The Ultimate Carmen McRae”

YOU’RE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU / Frank Sinatra / “A Night On The Town With The Rat Pack”

Here’s one of the better facts of life: you can listen to a Turntable For One podcast anywhere, anytime, day or night (except maybe when you’re in surgery). Click the link below to go to PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.

The accordion and Turntable For One. Some called that a perfect marriage, some called it synergy at its most organic, some just called it a night. There have been many swinging jazz accordionists in the past; and in the present, the instrument is finding its way into the background and the foreground with some great singers and musicians. Below is a partial list and all I had time to play this week.